For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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